Bouquet of Hands - Ilas Kenceng Wood Print

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Bouquet of Hands, Ilas Kenceng, Borneo. Digital oil painitng.

Lost in a karstic area covered in tropical jungle of Western Kalimantan in Borneo, a bunch of caves and shelters have preserved hundred of negative stenciled hands for over 10,000 years.
This composition found in Gua (cave) Ilas Kenceng, known as the Bouquet off Hands, is one of the most beautiful one can find all over the world. It was painted, like most of them in the region, using red haematites as pigment.

Stenciled hands can be found in caves and shelters all around the world. Studies of size and shape determine they are female for the most part, although it seems not to be the case here.

The stenciled hands are usually painted using one of two different techniques. The first one is simple enough and consists in spraying paint through the mouth on top of the poised hand. The second technique, far more complex, uses two separate short straws to form a V, open at the joint. The artist blows...

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